Subsection 2: Retirement.

Members of the regional council may set up an annuity pension in the management of which the affiliated elected representatives must participate. The constitution of the annuity pension is half the responsibility of the elected member and half the responsibility of the region. A decree in the Council of State sets the maximum contribution rates.

Members of the Regional Council shall be affiliated to the supplementary pension scheme set up for the benefit of non-tenured employees of public authorities. Pensions paid pursuant to this article may be accumulated without limitation with any other pension or retirement.

For the application of articles L. 4135-22 to L. 4135-23, the contributions of the regions and those of their elected representatives are calculated on the amount of the allowances actually received by the latter pursuant to the provisions of section 3 of this chapter or any other text governing the compensation of their functions. The contributions of elected representatives are personal and compulsory.

Retirement pensions already paid and rights acquired before 30 March 1992 by regional elected representatives continue to be honoured by the institutions and bodies with which they were constituted or to which they were transferred. The corresponding expenses are covered, where applicable, by a balancing subsidy paid by the local authorities concerned. The elected representatives mentioned in the previous paragraph, in office or having acquired rights to a retirement pension…